All my other vegan dress shoes were cheap ones that never lasted very long and just weren't very nice.

This time I bought a pair of Vegetarian Shoes brand from www.veganessentials.com and they are awesome! I'm wearing them to the Internet Summit in North Carolina in about a week, with my new belt and I'm really to rock that place!

I love my vegetarian shoes, I have one pair ("cambridge oxford") that I wear almost everyday for the past 3years and except that I have to re-sole it, the fabric is as good as new! Only problem is that those dress shoes are extremely slippery (walking on humid or sandy flat surfaces is not very safe, maybe it can be solved with new sole?).

So I have also some sneakers that do the job very well and winter boots that are great and robust. It's a good investment for long lasting shoes.

I have looked at many vegan dress shoes online and the only ones that I find nice are the NoHarm ones.The issue are that:1- They are quite expensive (but if they last long enough, and are as nice as they seem that'd be ok)2- No way to try them or see them in real3- No free shipping in case size or look doesn't work

gee wrote:The issue are that:1- They are quite expensive (but if they last long enough, and are as nice as they seem that'd be ok)2- No way to try them or see them in real3- No free shipping in case size or look doesn't work

Holy crap, those NoHarm shoes are expensive! I wish I could sell things like those, but trying to convince people to pay $250 and up for vegan shoes in this economy would only result in my spending a season's shoe budget on things that would just gather dust on the shelves. Even Sanders footwear that we used to carry isn't that expensive, and they made the BEST quality vegan footwear I've ever seen (all styles were hand-made in a small unioninzed shop in the UK, which means they were not cheap, but definitely lower cost than the NoHarm brand styles!)

We're working to HOPEFULLY be able to offer free returns on footwear later this year for our shop. It's not set in stone as we're still crunching numbers to see if it's feasible (when you're a billion-dollar giant like Zappos it can be done easily, but for small independent retailers, it's usually a pipe dream to be able to afford such a service due to massive losses incurred on eating the return costs).

Fingers are crossed we can do it, as it may be the last foray we have into vegan footwear, since the online mega-stores and shady deep discounters (read: eBay closeouts on shoes that were just released, a tactic some shops use to undercut everyone and get around manufacturer's regulations about adhering to set pricing standards) have put a hell of a hurt on our footwear business this past few years. Precisely why I will no longer look to carry major brands and am working with independent footwear companies that actually want to support small business instead of spit-shining the big retailers whose purpose is to squash the competition!

"A 'hardgainer' is merely someone who hasn't bothered to try enough different training methods to learn what is actually right for their own damned body." - anonymous

Gee - Sanders shoes are great, but unless they're making a vegan-specific run for a shop, all of their footwear is normally leather. We were the first company they made shoes in synthetics for, and I'm not sure if they're doing it for anyone else at this time.

Only buy if you can verify that a shoe of theirs was done in vegan materials, otherwise, if you order direct, you're going to be getting leather!

"A 'hardgainer' is merely someone who hasn't bothered to try enough different training methods to learn what is actually right for their own damned body." - anonymous

The Sanders brand shoes that were formerly available at VeganEssentials.com were the best vegetarian dress shoes I have ever seen, BY FAR. If they ever came back I'd pay a LOT to get more of them and I'd buy more than one pair black and brown. Brown non-leather dress shoes are VERY hard to find. The No Harm shoes look great, but over $300/pair?... ouch.

Mr. Katcher apparently can also create custom Vegan bespoke suits. I am so glad he exists and is doing what he is doing so that all of us slightly-style-concerned metropolitan Vegans can have both our compassion and stylish quality footwear at the same time.